Fuck Yeah LGBTQ Asians!

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We are not invisible. We are hot, fierce, sexy, assertive, cool, confident, outspoken and we are not afraid to show it. Highlighting the wide spectrum of lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender, questioning, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, downe, queer identified Asians (and all identities in between!) around the world on Tumblr. If you self-identify as Asian, feel free to submit pics of yourself (no porn please!), your Tumblr (if you want to be followed), and any other information you'd like to share! Stories, videos, poetry, and other forms of creative expression by you are also accepted and appreciated! Share your story! fuckyeahlgbtqasians.tumblr.com/submit

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Hi, I'm Amy. 21.

#lesbian #submission

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Hi Everyone! I’m David. 23, working at a tech start up, always scheming on my next big move. In love with planet earth (: Love the blog & its mission to promote LGBTQ+ APA pplz! Feel free to gimme a follow at my tumblr brotherssingon.tumblr.com or insta @daviddawen

Dear fuckyeahlgbtqasians,

I hope you are having a great day. My name is Judy Seoud, and I am a graduate student in the Stigma, Identity, and Intersectionality Research Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University. The goal of this research team is to investigate and promote the physical health, mental health, and overall well-being of diverse populations.

We are currently conducting a study concerning bisexual men’s experiences of stigma, coping, and sexual health (IRB Protocol #18-119). I wanted to know if you could please share the flyer and hyperlink for this study with your followers. The study can also be reached directly by using the following link: bit.ly/2AiTBYm

If you have any questions regarding this study, please feel free to reach out to the primary investigator: CJ Polihronakis, M.A., Ed.M. ([email protected]). Thank you very much for your time and cooperation. Have a wonderful day!

Best,

Judy Seoud

#bisexual #submission

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Cambodia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is coming out with an assertion of unprecedented pride, in stark contrast to just five years ago when discrimination and bullying were usually endured in private

““People always look at the negative side of the LGBT community. It is fair to show their positive side too, and their commitment and their abilities. Moreover, if they can get the support they need from their family they can become a better person, a good student, get a job and help the family,” she said.

“I believe that what we are doing now can definitely make a change. We want to change the mindset rather than changing just people’s behavior,” said Srun Srorn, founder of the group Rainbow Community Kampuchea (RoCK).”

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Lai Jeng-jer, a leader on gay rights in Taiwan who now lives in Beijing, discusses the progress he’s seen on the mainland, as well as the limitations.

“My cafe once hosted the Beijing Queer Film Festival. This is an international event that brings directors from all around the world. And when it comes to international events, there’s usually trouble. The police tend to interfere.

The Queer Film Festival has been held about a dozen times, and seven or eight times it’s been forced to shut down midway. Once they held it at Tsinghua University, and when the police came, even a top university like that had to compromise.

So when we held it, we couldn’t openly publicize it. What we did was send emails to people in which we didn’t mention what was happening. We just told them to come watch a movie on which day and at what time. It turned out that a lot of people showed up, and the police didn’t.

Some people joke about this situation. They say that in Taipei it’s called a “gay movement,” but in Beijing it’s “gay activities.” You can have all kinds of activities, but you can’t allow any of them to turn into a movement.

Still, it’s not that hard to live in Beijing as a homosexual, if all you want is a quiet life and you avoid participating in any movements. I’ve seen many lesbian couples kissing each other in the subway. Gays can also host parties at home. But you can’t get involved in any protests or demonstrations. Basically, if you keep a low profile, the authorities don’t interfere.”

I think that the semantics and mental framing involved in distinguishing something from “gay activity” versus a “gay movement” speaks to a not-so-subtle kind of anti-LGBT sentiment of “Oh, I totally accept you but just don’t be too extreme.” We see this when people express things like “I don’t mind gay people, I just don’t want to see them kissing/holding hands/etc.”. It’s this policing of queer bodies that affectively and systemically force us to inhabit these closets that we must stay in - the abject positionality. However, I like this part of the article because although there may not be a “gay movement” in Beijing, there are these small instances of activism. To declare that “it’s not that hard to live in Beijing as a homosexual” is an act of revolution in and of itself. It’s a declaration of I matter, I exist, and I know my worth. It’s these smaller steps of affirmation that pave the way towards larger demonstrations, protests, and movements which people oftentimes see as the only kind of activism out there.

- James (@semajaime)

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Harish Iyer, host of the Gaydio show in Mumbai, has opened up about his struggles as a gay Indian. His show is the first of its kind in a country notoriously hostile to sexual minorities.

“Just your average Sunday afternoon radio fare — except that the host was Harish Iyer, perhaps India’s most outspoken gay rights activist, and his guests were a transgender woman and her straight husband.

They were speaking on “Gaydio,” the first radio show dedicated to LGBTQ issues in India, where homosexuality is taboo, same-sex relations are officially illegal and most marriages still take place within socially prescribed boundaries of caste and religion, not to mention gender.”

And with that, I’m signing off as your guest moderator! Thank you G3S for giving me this space to curate a week exploring various queer Asian activisms. Hope y'all enjoyed your weekends! ^_^ -James (@semajaime)

As a child, Jen Vailoces looked up to her mother, who spent most of her time in their kitchen, cooking and baking. Although she is a physical therapist by profession, Jen says she is a baker by passion.

“This has been a long time dream. I’ve always had a passion for baking and desserts and I finally made this happen,” she told BA. What was just a dream became a reality last Sunday, when Jennivee’s Bakery officially opened.

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Gaysian Study - Make Your Voice Heard!

Data on LGBTQ Asians is scarce, given our numbers as a double-minority. Props to the University of Maryland for conducting a study on the Gaysian experience!

Currently, they still need 200 participants - every 5th completion will get a $20 Amazon gift card, and more importantly, the responses will contribute to this little-studied area of research, and help with community organizing efforts.

The survey only takes about 20 minutes - make your voice heard at http://ter.ps/LGBTQAAPI

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Amy Lin is a 23-year-old queer Chinese activist currently advocating for immigrant rights. As a child, Amy was already aware of the fact that she and her mother were immigrants, and that this set her apart from other children her age. Thus Amy began working to promote immigrant rights in 2012. Since then, Amy has worked with Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education (ASPIRE), striving to raise awareness of undocumented LGBTQ+ individuals and students and the treatment they receive.

Some excerpts from an interview with Amy Lin for API Equality Northern California’s Dragon Fruit Project collecting oral histories of LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islander people:

AL: one day I think [my teacher] was beating me with a water pipe. And my pinky sort of broke off… and at that point I was like, ‘okay, I probably need to tell my mom about this.’ So I approached my mom and was like, ‘hey mom, so this happened at school.’ And my mom actually told me, “Why didn’t you just beat your teacher?!” That was [my mom]’s way of telling me that you need to be more aware of how people are treating you because things are — like, just because you’re a kid, it doesn’t mean that people see you as a kid. Everything comes in a very political way and you need to be becoming more conscious about that and then start defending yourself.

Interviewer: In Burma you said it felt more like home - you had a lot of family around you. Can you describe more - who was around you, what that was like?

AL: Yeah, in Burma it was mainly my mother’s side of family, which consists of my cousins and - I mean, my mom has 7 other siblings, so multiplied by each one has like, 2 children so 14 people in 1 building… so dinner was big. Lunch was big.

Interviewer: What was your favorite at those dinners and lunches?

AL: I had a bad habit when I was a kid that I liked to eat off everyone’s plate. Like if I see the food that I like from other people’s plate, I would just pick them up and they can’t say no to me because I was a kid. So I abused that a lot. There are these little fried fritters that I really liked. They’re made of bean and basically a bean paste and then fried and those tend to be paired with noodle soup. But I like to eat them alone just as it is. And so whenever I see a plate of it sitting at the table, I just slowly move over to that plate and then hog it to myself and slowly hide away. But of course within 30 seconds my mom would catch me and like, “you should not take that away.”

Interviewer: I’m curious, is your mom still here in the States? What’s your relationship like with her now?

AL: Yeah, we’re actually living together. And our relationship has always pretty much been the same ever since we moved here. We argue a lot, but I think that’s because I think she’s reaching menopause. But I mean, we argue a lot not because we have ideological differences, but because it’s her way of checking me if I’m staying as close to my roots as possible. Whenever I slip like an English word in my mouth, she’d be like, “Do not do it. Just don’t do it.” Don’t eat cheese around the house, that’s always a thing. But she’s always been very supportive of me coming out as undocumented and as queer. She has been… out of character. Atypical character of Asian mom.

Interviewer: Final question. Is that where you feel like you get your fighting spirit from? From your mom and from the things that you’ve gone through together?

AL: Yes. Yes. She has been not just - so if I were to ever copy myself, in a very identical way, she would be the model that I want to copy after.

Interviewer: What specifically about her?

AL: The ability to just not give a shit. Her act of moving so freely from country to country and being unafraid in so many ways.

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Laurin Mayeno, the proud mixed-race mother of a multiracial gay son, launched Out Proud Families to pursue her passion—using her voice as a mother to build acceptance and support within families and communities.

In this series of short videos, Laurin Mayeno shares her experiences and learning parenting her son Danny, who was gender creative from an early age and later identified as gay. She created the series, with her son’s help, to open hearts and minds, spark dialogue, build awareness and support families like her own.

Part 1: The Early Years

Part 2 – Elementary School Years

Part 3 – Middle and High School Years

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Professional content creator, social media editor, web producer and blogger Hajime Okazawa is a strong advocate for the LGBT community. I interviewed Hajime because I wanted to know what it was like being gay in Japan. By Ann Jie

Another reason why some people are against me being open is that they want to protect the areas which are really gay friendly like Ni Chome which is now becoming straight –friendly. That’s what scares some closeted gay people who live with their parents and are closeted in the office because that is the only place they can feel at home and be themselves. Back in the 60s and 70s, men used to go to Ni Chome, pull off their wedding rings, date guys, and then put their wedding rings back on when it was time to catch the last train home.”

This interview with Hajime Okazawa includes some interesting observations about the experiences gay Japanese men have in Japan of being gay, marrying women, coming out (or not), and building community. Hajime describes how choices gay Japanese people make have been affected by cultural expectations and historical trends. How do the cultural expectations and values in our own lives inform how we approach relationships with other people in our families, workplaces, and social spaces?

Hey there, I am a 21 years old Asian guy born and raised in Germany. Thai mother | Vietnamese/Chinese father | performing arts student | vegetarian | pokemon + digimon junkie Tumblr: Minrock Hit me up! Love to meet new people!

#gay #queer #submission

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My queerness is an ongoing project.

What if I had told my mom that I wasn’t born any kind of way? And what if my mother did have a hand in crafting my queerness? Why did she believe that contributing to my magical queer self was an evil rather than a good? Why did she believe that “fixing” me—as re-education camps or gender conversion therapy aim to—is necessary? Why do I need to claim that my queerness is unchanging and natural to be safe from people who will do anything to control me, and to ensure that I can’t dream up new selves and determine who I will be? Because I did change. At 17, I told myself and others that I was a gay man. At 20, I don’t identify as gay, and I don’t identify as a man.

In this essay, Alex-Quan Pham describes their queer identity, their experience of coming out to their mom as gay, and how their identity and understanding of their identity have both evolved over time. For those of us who don’t fully understand our queer identities, who are questioning, or who find our identities shifting, how might we affirm ourselves (and each other) when other people ask us to change or behave in a way that conforms more to their idea of “normal”?

ATTENTION:

Educational Contexts and Queer Identity Psychology Study (ECQIPS) is an ongoing series of psychological studies being conducted at the University of Michigan by Ben Blankenship, a doctoral student in the Personality and Social Contexts area of the psychology department at UM. Our team is interested in studying the effects of educational contexts on individuals’ identity development, as well as the effect of identity on academic outcomes within these contexts. Our studies are specifically interested in Queer identities and positionalities, but we are also interested in the effects of intersecting identities (race, social class, gender, etc.) on similar outcomes and in similar contexts.

If you or someone you know might be interested in participating in any of our psychological studies, please enter your information into our screening survey [HERE/link-http://tinyurl.com/ECQIPS-Screening]. Please also share/follow this site with others who might be interested. Together we can research more about educational contexts and how they can be improved for Queer and other minority students.

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